Staff at Bloomberg report that the news agency has censored itself in an effort to please Chinese government officials. Pointing to a specific example, employees claim that Bloomberg editors quashed a story revealing findings from a one-year investigation into relationships between one of China's wealthiest businessmen and powerful Communist Party officials.
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A series of explosions occurred outside of a Communist Party building in the northern city of Taiyuan at 7:40 AM Wednesday morning. The explosions killed at least one person and injured another eight.
Attorney Wang Yu met with imprisoned activist Cao Shunli on Wednesday, October 30. Wang has been the only person granted access to Cao since her incarceration in September. Cao was detained while trying to travel to Geneva to attend a human rights conference ahead of the UN’s scheduled review of human rights development in China. She had sought to participate in the UN’s review process.
A Guangzhou-based newspaper has issued an apology after calling for the release of journalist Chen Yongzhou. Chen Yongzhou was arrested earlier this month based on suspicions that he was “fabricating facts” in relation to a series of articles he wrote on “financial problems” at Zoomilon, a heavy equipment manufacturer.
On Tuesday, the Chinese Supreme People’s Court published a white paper urging the Communist Party to implement reforms allowing for greater judicial independence. China’s highest court released the statement in anticipation of the upcoming third plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, which will be held in November.
Harry Wu and The Laogai Research Foundation joined other Chinese human rights activists and organizations in urging Dr. Geoffrey W.
Writing in the New Yorker, Evan Osnos comments on the growing phenomenon of Chinese authorities jailing wealthy Chinese entrepreneurs who advocate political reform.
A recently drafted white paper issued by the Chinese government reiterates that China has no intention on altering its "correct" policies on Tibet. China has ruled Tibet with an iron-fist since the Communist Party "liberated" Tibet in 1959, trampling on traditional Tibetan culture, language, religion, and environment.
Off-the-charts pollution, described by local officials as "heavy fog," choked the northern city of Harbin on Monday. The pollution was so thick that visibility diminished to only 100 meters.
President Xi Jinping has appointed a special unit headed by a senior policeman and deputy minister of public security to investigate former Minister of Public Security Zhou Yongkang.